2. What is Pop-Art? Emerged in mid 1950’s Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, esp. as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values Based on popular themes in the culture like comics, advertisement, and entertainment
4. Andrew Warhola August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 Coined the expression ”15 minutes of fame” Studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop-art
6. Influences Highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titledEight Elvises Advertisements Popular/Controversial things Sexuality